Unexpected Hero (Skyline Trilogy Book 1) by Willow Summers

Author:Willow Summers [Summers, Willow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hazy Dawn Press, Inc.
Published: 2016-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

A half-hour later, Erika and Jenna were quietly talking about the types of windows that would look best on the top ten floors, when two older women fell in step with them. They might’ve been twins for how alike they were. Short, dark hair that looked dyed, dark eyes, weird jeans from yesteryear, plain white sneakers, and sweatshirts tied around their waists. They were both over seventy.

“Hello, girls!” one said. She had a lighter shade of jeans and slightly more wrinkles.

“Hi,” Erika said.

“You girls are sure pretty. All the boys are raving!” The other laughed.

Erika and Jenna looked straight ahead and muttered, “Thanks.”

“Oh yes, all the boys wish they were in your group.” The one with more wrinkles smiled broadly. “So, what do you girls do?”

“Architects,” Erika replied. Usually Erika was the friendlier between her and Jenna. Not so now. She was out of her element with this one.

“Oh! Business girls, Betsy.” Wrinkles smiled and nodded.

“Oh, how exciting,” Betsy responded. “We were wondering. We heard all of you talking so animatedly last night, and of course I knew it must be about work. Are you on a retreat?”

“Team building,” Jenna said.

“Oh, how wonderful!” Wrinkles clapped her hands in praise.

“Erika, Jenna, can I have a word?” Josh’s voice cut through the older women. He was walking backward on the path in front of them.

“Oh, yes, of course!” Wrinkles gave Betsy a meaningful glance before hurrying past Josh, landing next to poor Mike, who had been walking blessedly alone up until that point.

Josh was looking at Jenna, his eyes twinkling, his hair mussed as though he had been running his hands through it in frustration. “How are you girls faring?”

“Thank you,” Jenna gushed without hesitation.

“For?” Josh gave himself away by glancing at the wrinkle sisters.

Josh fell in line with them. “You made me look good earlier,” he said.

“Let’s just say we realized how much you were sparing us by not talking about the ‘wild’ things around us.”

“Yes, many people sign up for these tours to learn those types of things. Karen doesn’t understand that your group is not like most.”

“In more ways than one,” Erika replied in a dry tone.

“I noticed you aren’t policing Dale,” Jenna said, watching as someone pointed out a butterfly and three more people exclaimed.

“He isn’t near you girls.” Josh flicked his eyes to Dale, and then away. “My flock is tended, so to speak.”

“That’s a bit low, don’t you think?” Erika asked with a sly glance at Josh.

No pity showed on Josh’s face. “I warned her. I told her you were all a different breed. She chose not to believe me.”

“She chose to walk with her hand in your pocket.” Jenna clamped her mouth shut, immediately regretting that statement.

The scary guide had got under her skin somehow. She hated to admit it, but she got weirdly jealous every time Karen stole his attention, and annoyingly anticipated every time she got to speak to him again after an absence. She barely knew him, and probably had nothing in common with him, but she couldn’t wait to hear what he’d say next.

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